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UNITED STATES PATENT` OFFICE.

.HENRY PnoPAoH, E NEW Yoan, N. Y.

DRESS-CHART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,180, dated Mey 22, 1883.

Application med January 15. Issa (No med-ei.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY PROPAGH, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and Improved DreSsChart, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of a number ot' templets joined together by suitable studs working in slots in the adjoining templets, to enable the regulation of the 'position of said templets toward each other, so as to increase or to diminish the size of the chart according to the dimensions required. 'Ihe templets and connectingbars are provided with the usual marks and figures to regulate the same.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure I represents the dress-chart connected together,

and Fig. 1I represents the outlines of the pattern for a dress to be cut according to certain measurements. c

Similar letters represent similar parts in all the figures. p

The dress-chart consists of a number of templets, A B C D E F G, and rods or bars H, J, K, N, and I, connected together by suitable pins or studs, a b c d, 85e., moving in suitable slots, a! b c' d', Ste., in the adjoining parts, whereby said templets can be easily moved farther apart or nearer together, according to certain measurements. The templets and the rods or bars are provided with suitable scales,

. engraved or printed upon the same, corresponding with the measure used to take the measure of the body, and whereby the exact position of the several templets are fixed, such as' the bust-measure, clIest-measure, backwidth, waist-length, back-length, front, belt, and hip measure. When the several templets have been regulated to correspond with the measure of the body and xed in relation with each other, the desired pattern can be readily drawn upon the material, or preferably upon a sheet of paper, from which itis marked upon the material by following the outer edges. of the chart, and the figure represented in Fig.

II will be obtained.

In Fig. I the templets and bars forming the dress-chart are placed in accordance with the following measure, viz: bustmeasure, round the largest part, under the arm, across the chest, tight to keep measure together, 34; chest-measure, taken from one arm to the other over the stoutest part, across the chest, 165; back-width, over the broadest part ot back, from armhole to armhole, 11; waistlength, from the armhole to the beginning ot' the hips, 7; back-length, from the neckband to the middle of the back-waist, 15;. shoulderlength, from the beginning of the waist-length in back over the shoulder three inches from the neck to the middle of the front, 30; tront, from the back-band to the width ot' the waist in front, 19; belt-measure, round the smallest part of the waist, 24'; hip-measure, five inches under the waist, over the shortest part of the hip, 40. Draw the indicator to 34 on scale M, the bust-measure, when it will be found that the edge of, templet A stands on 3l on scale Q. Then put templet D on 16g; on' scale It for-the chest-width. Place templet G on 1l on scale S for back-width. Place lower (edge of templet B on 15 on bar N for back-length. Move templetEsothatedge of templetCcomes to 30 on division ,7 for shoulder-length, and in the same position place templets F and D. Put inner edge of templet E on 34 (bust-meas ure) on bar H, likewise inner edge of templet F on 34 on bar J, and pin m at end of bar J on line 34 on templet G. The position of bar H will cause the moving ot' piu lo at its other end in the slot cof bar K, as here represented, to 2. Theil take 2i from lil-the true front-measure--and place lower edge ot' templet A on this remaining number, 16%,for this measure. The chart will now be in position to draw the outline of the gure represented at Fig. Il. Mark upon the paper before removing chart, points 34 on top ot templets D and U, and likewise at bottom of templets A and B; likewise points 34 on scales Vv and XV, and on scale Y on templet A. Then mark a point about'haltway between 34 on templet C, and 34 on templet E at inner edge,`and at 34 on scale X ot' templet B, when the chart may be removed. Points 34 ot' scales V and W show the position for placing teinplet to form breast-folds.

What I'claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the templets A B C D E F Gr and rods or bars H J K N P, connected 5 together by suitable pins or studs arranged to move in slots provided in the templets and bars, respectively, said parts being also provided With suitable scales, and all constructed and arranged for operation substantially as and for the purpose specified.

. HENRY PROPACH.

Witnesses: I

HENRY E. ROEDER, J. GEMMEL, Jr. 

